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He Ako mo ngā Umanga Mahi Ngātahi | How to Start a Cooperative in Aotearoa
A free 6-module course in Freirean critical pedagogy — for workers, communities, and tangata whenua building a better economy from the ground up.
 • Robert McCall
NYC's Socialist Sweep: What It Means for Ideology, Class Power, and Aotearoa
The Night Wall Street’s Backyard Cracked
 • Robert McCall
Building an AI data centre in Aotearoa from a socialist standpoint
Overview
 • Robert McCall
The Conjuncture: What the Week Told Us
From Dunedin to Beirut, the same crisis
 • Robert McCall
The Heart of the Prime Minister's World (Is a Property Portfolio)
The Australian Women's Weekly — "Aland Edition" — would like to remind you that the most powerful man in New Zealand is very, very handsome and has a…
 • Robert McCall
YOUR MONEY. THEIR WARS. HOW NEW ZEALAND FUNDS THE MACHINE.
The Kiwi Dialectic | Edition 1 of 5 | June 24, 2026 | thekiwidialectic.substack.com
 • Robert McCall
Winston Peters, Angry Man of the Establishment
Winston Peters is furious again.
 • Robert McCall
Be More Like Singapore, Chris
*The Kiwi Dialectic — Pissed Off Socialist*
 • Robert McCall
Graeber: Debt, Bullshit Jobs & Direct Democracy — Free email course from The Kiwi Dialect
Six lessons on debt as a tool of power, why most work is meaningless by design, and how ordinary people build direct democracy — from Aotearoa, for…
 • Robert McCall
Kropotkin & Mutual Aid – Lesson 6: Mutual Aid Now, from food banks to tenants unions to climate response
Mutual aid is not theoretical. It is happening right now, in your street, in your workplace, in your community. This final lesson maps where it is, what…
 • Robert McCall
Kropotkin & Mutual Aid – Lesson 5: The State vs Mutual Aid, when welfare replaced self-organised solidarity
The welfare state was a genuine gain for the working class. It was also used to dismantle self-organised networks of solidarity. We need to understand…
 • Robert McCall
Kropotkin & Mutual Aid – Lesson 4: Mutual Aid in Aotearoa, hapu, whanau, working-class communities, and cooperative economies
Mutual aid is not a Western import to Aotearoa. It was already here — in tikanga, in whanau obligations, in working-class neighbourhoods. This lesson…
 • Robert McCall
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